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Author
Publisher
45th Parallel Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Lexile measure
HL 490L
Language
English
Description
"Uncover some of the most famous fakers, schemers, and cheaters who turned the world, and the truth, upside down across the ages. Readers of this hi-lo series learn how to spot a lie and confirm the truth for themselves as they look a little closer at the tales people tell." -- page [4] of cover
Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In 2009, Harvey A. Silverglate, a prominent criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer, published his landmark critique of the federal criminal justice system, Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent. In 2014, Sidney Powell, a former federal prosecutor in three districts under nine United States Attorneys from both political parties and who has been lead counsel in 500 federal appeals, published her landmark indictment of the system,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The criminal justice system in the United States is highly complex, and includes both the activities of law enforcement officers as well as court proceedings. Often, social and economic factors come into play in the arrests, trials, and rehabilitation of Americans, and many people recognize that there are problems with the system. This book explores whether bias based on race, sexuality, gender, and/or socio-economic status exists in the courtroom...
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Beginning in 1994, the author began recording stories of 50 incarcerated felons--17 of them were still in prison 20 years later. The men discuss what it means to commit a serious crime and be confined. The author identifies circumstances that ruin some prisoners and save others and presents insights for possible improvements in the criminal justice system"--
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When Dr. John Snow first traced an outbreak of cholera to a water pump in the Soho district of London in 1854, the field of epidemiology was born. Taking the same public health approaches and tools that have successfully tracked epidemics of flu, tuberculosis, and AIDS over the intervening one hundred and fifty years, the author makes the case that our current unprecedented level of imprisonment has become an epidemic, a plague upon our body politic....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Journalist and law professor Rosa Brooks goes beyond the "blue wall of silence" in this radical inside examination of American policing" -- Amazon.com.
"A radical inside examination of policing in modern America, from a Georgetown University law professor turned reserve police officer"--
In 2015, against the advice of everyone she knew, Brooks applied to become a sworn, armed reserve police officer with the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department....
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
This thesis analyzes the ever-increasing social marginalization of felons at the hands of the justice system and the obstacles this marginalization creates for those who have been convicted of criminal acts. The late 1970s initiated political hegemonic Tough on Crime policies that led the way for enforced mandatory sentencing laws and restrictive policies that, three decades later, have become a shadow looming over the heads of every citizen who has...
